The Canadian poet and Chinese experiment writer are the bookmakers’ favourites to win, with Haruki Murakami, Gerald Murnane and Margaret Atwood also in the mix

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

Ronald Johnson and his poem The Book of the Green Man, with particular reference to Samuel Palmer.

Linklater has been planning a film about the transcendentalists, the "first hippies," a literary movement that included Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.

A journey through the anceint rites of the Sussex countryside with wind chies, plinky keyboards and infectious acoustic guitar licks proves a triumph, for Travis Elborough

art in your home

Landscape in art, music, literature, film and other art forms.

From the steaming volcanoes of Yellowstone park to the mists of Bodmin Moor, the artist’s latest riveting work is like hitching a ride with Oedipus, Antigone and ZZ Top

Czech’s audacious defiance of Sepp Maier in Belgrade has slipped into football folklore: ‘The only disadvantage is that I don’t get any royalties from it’

Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…

Georges Seurat at Gravelines

Others have referred to the idea of both music and photography containing rhythm, both containing light and dark, or positive and negative.

Elizabeth Alker shares the winner of the Tune into Nature Music Prize.

Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece

On John Bevis's collection of found poems, 'A Surrey Naturalist'

Remembering R.F. Langley, 1938-2011

Landscape in recent poetry by Alec Finlay

Filmmaker, archivist, LGBT film historian and online pioneer Jenni Olson offers recommendations for excellent examples of landscape cinema.